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προσεῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσεῷος προσεῷον

Structure: προσεῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. towards the east

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν δὴ πλείουσ τῶν Σκυθῶν ἀπὸ τῆσ Κασπίασ θαλάττησ ἀρξάμενοι Δᾶαι προσαγορεύονται, τοὺσ δὲ προσεῴουσ τούτων μᾶλλον Μασσαγέτασ καὶ Σάκασ ὀνομάζουσι, τοὺσ δ’ ἄλλουσ κοινῶσ μὲν Σκύθασ ὀνομάζουσιν ἰδίᾳ δ’ ὡσ ἑκάστουσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 8 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. towards the east

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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